On Fri, May 19, 2023, 22:08 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> I don't think this ever made it to the list.
>
>
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> From: Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu>
> To: "Ángel" <an...@16bits.net>
> Cc: chet.ra...@case.edu
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> Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 11:53:46 -0400
> Subject: Re: nofork command substitution
> On 5/16/23 5:40 PM, Ángel wrote:
> > On 2023-05-15 at 13:35 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> >> There is an alternate form of command substitution:
> >>
> >> ${C COMMAND; }
> >
> > I find this description confusing, as it looks like a literal 'C'.
>
> Only in the info document, since that's how it renders @var. C is a
> meta-syntactic variable denoting a set of possible characters.
>
cool C def ..
greets
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